D9 Video: Eric Schmidt on Privacy

In a long-ranging interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt talked at length about privacy.

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Gueguen ... we all ... one witness ... Lee everybody ... comfortable that you and am people around you know so much about us ... don't you know too much bass ... and ensure that are in the hands of private company ... well the the the first most obvious question was who would do for the U S government to regulate ... the rate of the question and that you spent some time with U S government you might prefer a private company Makena's is Ascent's ... um ... you will see ... but ... the simple answer about privacy ... settings for the quest for asking ... is that um ... if you Gruebel will remain a place for you to do anonymous searches we are hearing about to ... on and we're very committed to having you have control over the information we have about it ... so for example if you want to use the will and the log and of course you are ... I will continue to be true forever it's really not ... quite simply she said ... on Monday the main villain in Taiwan and responder Sussman ... so ... if if you wish to use their services as the logging user you use a privacy task or you can actually see what we out and you can actually tell us to forget ... so the combination of that um ... from our perspective the ultimate answer is transparency we tell people what we know ... we give them that was giving it the leader ... um there are ... the right here has to do with a long keeps them this information ... and with a lot of internal debate ... at the simple answer the need to keep some of it to make algorithms better ... ICE would ultimately fall to look somewhere between fall in eighteen months detention Posts Loss ... which is roughly what the regulators want ... what a way with women ... you know it's easy to take a shot to the government ... it's ... it's fun to save the government in Koppen and are United as it is rather have a private company and is something that one hundred percent of the cases women in the government ... but the government is elected ... to protect us that they are always doing ... very well that is basically one of the ideas behind the ... US constitution so ... that the question is why should we have a comprehensive want Congress ... that would not only was it cool or so that everyone ... operating United States ... finally sets rules on the road of Epright you said ... club eighteen months makes sense to you and you ... know estimates as the traders who ... use it to make sense of regulars but ... may do and I haven't debate about what makes sense not public ... order the order the confidence we are generally in favour of such an approach because we think it would rationalise all of these questions you're you're in favor of of of lot that's a lot of it to use it again it depends on what what the question is what the questions on privacy is often misunderstood ... um ... from our perspective the the the fact the matter is ... that the that privacy is a compromise between the interest of the government in this of this ... and so for example in water retention which we debated great length in a long time ... of all the government's spring when some of the most multi month and has a trade off between public safety ... and you're right of privacy ... um the more that standardise along with better for ... so in terms of desexing and mobile bank I was facing an event that Steve Jobs is that this thing you should write more about privacy ... on any of ... it's ... I ... love these facilities has really good at it ... added ... they called and ... the Android phone A Probe in Your pocket ... to me ... anted as ... he led there ... it was a ... knack for knowing who's in and that he said that it sent a bunch a Sydney man he wanted me to say ... I'm so proud of Probe in Your pocket nice and well having been Steve Jobs and ... any said we can do that too but we don't have a search engine to suck it back into it like that he called the Baur or something like that ... at the facility ... to ... use to be very clear we don't do that yes yes so ... to be like if they don't do what we don't take the information that your phone generates about the location and socket and sister ... and aunt which is what he ... does I why was ... it some are out the second day we are proud ... we've done ... this issue ... the question that you ... have a question that is that the right but not any of the bequest was to ask was ... What this into into with your ... location instead of Probe in Your pocket like emailing me tell you what we do ... the first is there's an opt in for using that information the user periods ... of products which to social things latitude couple of these that ... you have to explicitly choose that ... um there is a surname and may sleep is back to Google which has an itemizing ... store ... to the answers is never used in search ... and what about a ... third party apps on your platform ... um when you get that very scary screen Android market which most people don't understand that looks very scary expected as bio hazard symbol By Greg ... says ... this thing this coming use your phone booking even though you're downloading in our a game or something it's a new phone book has been the location even released a ... second enough ... well what else could we do ... right size I ... will say that you do well to do besides just inform people ... what that would require we report you can puree ... and say we've we know what your a game we don't need to use the skies are um well for one thing games probably need to use phone books because the people to multiplayer game ... systems that we've made a decision not to read ... we are we we made a decision to stay focused on open open up ... the tab below is the inverse of the global model ... and I think the cops for coffee ... the fact the matter is that if you're an app that ... the Apple model produces beautiful parts of the specific market size share with all lot of air cover stuff going on ... um that are very controlled ... by Apple the Dougall model is just the inverse ... of that ... but the market cycle competition ... you've been thinking I know someone about the impact of what you said the access to information ... and the mobile revolution and cloud all these things on ... foreign policy ... and governments ... just ... what is the head or even I've been working with the with a ... very smart ... costs are ... open for all to try and understand ... implications of our world ... government scientists and so forth to some quite convinced that ... we take for granted in this room it's all obvious to us that what is this the used once before ... is it is a huge surprise to the average ... Western roses than ... this even larger supplies to their to the government's repressive regimes so on ... um so we've been didn't try to understand what those five years from now ten years from now after reading which this technology is continuing ... what does the world ... um and ... the first ACS's what's new in the most obvious answer is that the people will be Howard enormously new way is ... that everyone will have people smartphones in pockets ... at the wireless revolution the declining cost for instalments on allow people to have these powerful tools ... to be used for good and evil one ... um there is clearly a technology by us and that that that the devices in empowerment of consumers ... so we come to State of the view that ... rather than traditional realist view foreign policy which is really about States fighting instates ... more modern view is to look at it from the standpoint of consumers and the Internet ... and or adoption of these technologies ... of increases in Beery and results of the UK if you imagine for example was the ... perfect excuse evil dictator would do with all this acknowledging complete ... supervision of the track and so forth ... many imagine what this and that society with using the very best encryption tools and so forth ... unfortunately included exactly the same cool so the ones that would be used by terrorists against an open society ... so these are questions that I don't think people are really ready for and ... how we as a side ... door ... I'm very concerned personally about the ... union of ... mobile tracking and face recognition ... small trucks to something that can occur naturally by Britain's BAE Systems' U S action ... again we have a clear answer their words are coming on ... but the biometrics in general when possible to do things that the nation against crowds so Portman ... again an evil dictator could use that against you ... it also used with this wrinkle in an open society is ... indeed in Europe there are many many moving moves to make that that ... my guess is that democracy itself will be revealed ... what's up is working on facial recognition but ... precisely not to do the concert and yes I mean spirited in ten years and was running behind its fifty year I'm I'm quite sure that we're in certain lights heavier ... years and that Monday when it says is when I'm meeting that Bettigole ... Copple's twelve year-old was running the division ... Adam and I said can you do this is a was showing me the Eiffel Tower over over again ... example or that bottle and her ... price of about basis because we don't do that ... to get the company has ... said is do you do that can you do that he said we don't do that and say I guess it must of been a piano and there actually are ... reasonably clearly we have is basically built that technology ... and we withheld ... as far as I know it's the only technology that Goebel built ... after looking at it we decided to stop ... watches of the because of the issues that I was describing the the ... the fact that people could use the stuff is very very bad Liz Rosenberg to enlist help for how long I mean that I mean it's you feel that the technology is generally available ... from this perspective we're not going to this gentle way ... is we don't want we don't want to be in that space but you will of the third party button on your Android was ... from plant or ... or ... any for any platform app ... strategy as to allow for people to do that stuff ... we don't says we don't cure ... people will use this technology said to be what the actual practical difference ... to a user an Android phone whether the after school goggles or someone else is apt that the ... what you which you clearly think isn't this a bad idea ... first ... whether plenty of apps I don't like the first illegal ... so again our strategies remain open and he should regulations come out which I suspect they will in these democracies ... on these kinds of apps become legal ...